http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/postscript-to-catastrophic-racetrack-injuries-and-breakdowns-the-dog-that-did-not-bark-506.htm William Shanklin Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:02:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/postscript-to-catastrophic-racetrack-injuries-and-breakdowns-the-dog-that-did-not-bark-506.htm/comment-page-1#comment-36 G. Rarick Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:50:45 +0000 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/?p=506#comment-36 I couldn't agree more, but I speak out against medication so often that I think people have stopped listening. The amazing thing is the mindset about medication in the United States. I know trainers who say they run on hay, oats and water...except Lasix, of course, which is such a given it no longer seems to count. All medications must be banned in a racing animal, first and foremost lasix. The rest of us in other countries get by fine without it. I couldn’t agree more, but I speak out against medication so often that I think people have stopped listening. The amazing thing is the mindset about medication in the United States. I know trainers who say they run on hay, oats and water…except Lasix, of course, which is such a given it no longer seems to count. All medications must be banned in a racing animal, first and foremost lasix. The rest of us in other countries get by fine without it.

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